The important debate on global warming under UN auspices
provides but a partial picture of climate change; in addition to the
devastating impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the ozone layer, the
World's climate can now be
modified as part of a new generation of
sophisticated "non-lethal weapons." Both the Americans and the Russians
have developed capabilities to manipulate the World's climate.
In
the US, the technology is being perfected under the High-frequency
Active Aural Research Program (HAARP) as part of the ("Star Wars")
Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). Recent scientific evidence suggests
that HAARP is fully operational and has the ability of potentially
triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes.
HAARP IS A MASS DESTRUCTIVE WEAPON - NOT PART OF ANY NEGOTIATIONS
From
a military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction.
Potentially, it constitutes an instrument of conquest capable of
selectively destabilising agricultural and ecological systems of entire
regions.
While there is no evidence that this deadly technology
has been used, surely the United Nations should be addressing the issue
of "environmental warfare" alongside the debate on the climatic impacts
of greenhouse gases.
Despite a vast body of scientific knowledge,
the issue of deliberate climatic manipulations for military use has
never been explicitly part of the UN agenda on climate change. Neither
the official delegations nor the environmental action groups
participating in the Hague Conference on Climate Change (CO6) (November
2000) have raised the broad issue of "weather warfare" or "environmental
modification techniques (ENMOD)" as relevant to an understanding of
climate change.
The clash between official negotiators,
environmentalists and American business lobbies has centered on
Washington's outright refusal to abide by commitments on carbon dioxide
reduction targets under the 1997 Kyoto protocol.(1) The impacts of
military technologies on the World's climate are not an object of
discussion or concern. Narrowly confined to greenhouse gases, the
ongoing debate on climate change serves Washington's strategic and
defense objectives.
"WEATHER WARFARE"

World renowned
scientist Dr. Rosalie Bertell confirms that "US military scientists are
working on weather systems as a potential weapon. The methods include
the enhancing of storms and the diverting of vapor rivers in the Earth's atmosphere to produce targeted droughts or floods."(2)
Already in the 1970s, former National Security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski had foreseen in his book "Between Two Ages" that:
"Technology
will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for
conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security
forces need be appraised... Techniques of weather modification could be
employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm. "
Marc
Filterman, a former French military officer, outlines several types of
"unconventional weapons" using radio frequencies. He refers to "weather
war," indicating that the U.S. and the Soviet Union had already
"mastered the know-how needed to unleash sudden climate changes
(hurricanes, drought) in the early 1980s." (3) These technologies make
it "possible to trigger atmospheric disturbances by using Extremely Low
Frequency (ELF) radar [waves]." (4)
A simulation study of future
defense "scenarios" commissioned for the US Air Force calls for: "US
aerospace forces to 'own the weather' by capitalizing on emerging
technologies and focusing development of those technologies to
war-fighting applications." From enhancing friendly operations or
disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural
weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications and
counterspace control, weather-modification offers the war fighter a
wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary. In the
United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of
national security policy with both domestic and international
applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its
interests, at various levels. (5)
THE HIGH-FREQUENCY ACTIVE AURAL RESEARCH PROGRAM - HAARP
The
High-Frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP) based in Gokoma
Alaska-jointly managed by the US Air Force and the US Navy-is part of a
new generation of sophisticated weaponry under the US Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI). Operated by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space
Vehicles Directorate, HAARP constitutes a system of powerful antennas
capable of creating "controlled local modifications of the ionosphere".
Scientist
Dr. Nicholas Begich-actively involved in the public campaign against
HAARP-describes HAARP as: "A super-powerful radiowave-beaming technology
that lifts areas of the ionosphere (upper layer of the atmosphere) by
focusing a beam and heating those areas. Electromagnetic waves then
bounce back onto earth and penetrate everything-living and dead." (6)
Dr.
Rosalie Bertell depicts HAARP as "a gigantic heater that can cause
major disruption in the ionosphere, creating not just holes, but long
incisions in the protective layer that keeps deadly radiation from
bombarding the planet." (7)
MISLEADING PUBLIC OPINION
HAARP
has been presented to public opinion as a program of scientific and
academic research. US military documents seem to suggest, however, that
HAARP's main objective is to "exploit the ionosphere for Department of
Defense purposes." (8) Without explicitly referring to the HAARP
program, a US Air Force study points to the use of "induced ionospheric
modifications" as a means of altering weather patterns as well as
disrupting enemy communications and radar.(9)
According to Dr.
Rosalie Bertell, HAARP is part of a integrated weapons' system, which
has potentially devastating environmental consequences: "It is related
to fifty years of intensive and increasingly destructive programs to
understand and control the upper atmosphere. It would be rash not to
associate HAARP with the space laboratory construction which is
separately being planned by the United States. HAARP is an integral part
of a long history of space research and development of a deliberate
military nature.
The military implications of combining these
projects is alarming. The ability of the HAARP / Spacelab/ rocket
combination to deliver very large amount of energy, comparable to a
nuclear bomb, anywhere on earth via laser and particle beams, are
frightening. The project is likely to be "sold" to the public as a space
shield against incoming weapons, or, for the more gullible, a device
for repairing the ozone layer. (10)
In addition to weather
manipulation, HAARP has a number of related uses: "HAARP could
contribute to climate change by intensively bombarding the atmosphere
with high-frequency rays. Returning low-frequency waves at high
intensity could also affect people's brains, and effects on tectonic
movements cannot be ruled out. (11).
More generally, HAARP has the
ability of modifying the World's electro-magnetic field. It is part of
an arsenal of "electronic weapons" which US military researchers
consider a "gentler and kinder warfare". (12)
WEAPONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER
HAARP
is part of the weapons arsenal of the New World Order under the
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). From military command points in the
US, entire national economies could potentially be destabilized through
climatic manipulations. More importantly, the latter can be implemented
without the knowledge of the enemy, at minimal cost and without engaging
military personnel and equipment as in a conventional war. The use of
HAARP-if it were to be applied-could have potentially devastating
impacts on the World's climate.
Responding to US economic and
strategic interests, it could be used to selectively modify climate in
different parts of the World resulting in the destabilization of
agricultural and ecological systems. It is also worth noting that the US
Department of Defense has allocated substantial resources to the
development of intelligence and monitoring systems on weather changes.
NASA and the Department of Defense's National Imagery and Mapping Agency
(NIMA) are working on "imagery for studies of flooding, erosion,
land-slide hazards, earthquakes, ecological zones, weather forecasts,
and climate change" with data relayed from satellites. (13)
POLICY INERTIA OF THE UNITED NATIONS
According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) signed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro:
"States
have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the
principles of international law, the responsibility to ensure that
activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to
the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of
national jurisdiction." (14).
It is also worth recalling that an
international Convention ratified by the UN General Assembly in 1997
bans "military or other hostile use of environmental modification
techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects." (15) Both
the US and the Soviet Union were signatories to the Convention. The
Convention defines "environmental modification techniques" as referring
to any technique for changing-through the deliberate manipulation of
natural processes-the dynamics, composition or structure of the earth,
including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere or of outer
space." (16) Why then did the UN-disregarding the 1977 ENMOD Convention
as well as its own charter-decide to exclude from its agenda climatic
changes resulting from military programs?
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ACKNOWLEDGES IMPACT OF HAARP
In
February 1998, responding to a report of Mrs. Maj. Britt
Theorin-Swedish MEP and longtime peace advocate--, the European
Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defense Policy
held public hearings in Brussels on the HAARP program.(17) The
Committee's "Motion for Resolution" submitted to the European
Parliament: "Considers HAARP by virtue of its far-reaching impact on the
environment to be a global concern and calls for its legal, ecological
and ethical implications to be examined by an international independent
body; [the Committee] regrets the repeated refusal of the United States
Administration to give evidence to the public hearing into the
environmental and public risks [of&] the HAARP program." (18.)
The
Committee's request to draw up a "Green Paper" on "the environmental
impacts of military activities", however, was casually dismissed on the
grounds that the European Commission lacks the required jurisdiction to
delve into "the links between environment and defense". (19) Brussels
was anxious to avoid a showdown with Washington.
FULLY OPERATIONAL
While
there is no concrete evidence of HAARP having been used, scientific
findings suggest that it is at present fully operational. What this
means is that HAARP could potentially be applied by the US military to
selectively modify the climate of an "unfriendly nation" or "rogue
state" with a view to destabilizing its national economy. Agricultural
systems in both developed and developing countries are already in crisis
as a result of New World Order policies including market deregulation,
commodity dumping, etc. Amply documented, IMF and World Bank "economic
medicine" imposed on the Third World and the countries of the former
Soviet block has largely contributed to the destabilization of domestic
agriculture. In turn, the provisions of the World Trade Organization
(WTO) have supported the interests of a handful of Western agri-biotech
conglomerates in their quest to impose genetically modified (GMO) seeds
on farmers throughout the World.

It is important to
understand the linkage between the economic, strategic and military
processes of the New World Order. In the above context, climatic
manipulations under the HAARP program (whether accidental or deliberate)
would inevitably exacerbate these changes by weakening national
economies, destroying infrastructure and potentially triggering the
bankruptcy of farmers over vast areas. Surely national governments and
the United Nations should address
the possible consequences of HAARP and other "non-lethal weapons" on climate change.
NOTES

1. The latter calls for nations to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions by an average of 5.2 percent to become effective
between 2008 and 2012. See Background of Kyoto Protocol athttp://www.globalwarming.net/gw11.html

12. Don Herskovitz, Killing Them Softly, Journal of
Electronic Defense, August 1993. (emphasis added). According
to Herskovitz, "electronic warfare" is defined by the US
Department of Defense as "military action involving the use
of electromagnetic energyѓ" The Journal of Electronic
Defense at http://www.jedefense.com/

has published a rangeof articles on the application of electronic and
electromagnetic military technologies.
13. Military Space, 6 December, 1999.

19. EU Lacks Jurisdiction to Trace Links Between
Environment and Defense, European Report, 3 February
1999.
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